Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way?
Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.
As I mentioned in another thread about the same topic, it’s theoretically possible but I find it unlikely. It’s hard for any single instance to consolidate too much power here; and even when we point out the fact that mastodon.social and lemmy.world are too large within their respective categories, we’re mostly pointing out to a potential future problem, not a current issue. In other words they’d need to be orders of magnitude larger to be able to enshittify their Fediverse turfs.